Zambezi flapshell turtle
Zambezi flapshell turtle | |
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Head of a Cycloderma frenatum | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Reptilia |
Order: | Testudines |
Suborder: | Cryptodira |
Family: | Trionychidae |
Genus: | Cycloderma |
Species: | C. frenatum |
Binomial name | |
Cycloderma frenatum W. Peters, 1854 | |
Synonyms[3] | |
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The Zambezi flapshell turtle (Cycloderma frenatum) is a species of softshell turtle in the family Trionychidae). Within its family, C. frenatum belongs to the smaller, and exclusively Old World, subfamily Cyclanorbinae.
Geographic range
[edit]C. frenatum is found in southeastern Africa, in the countries of Malawi, Mozambique, Tanzania, Zambia, Zanzibar, and Zimbabwe,[4] and mainly in the Zambezi basin.
Conservation status
[edit]C. frenatum is becoming rare due to habitat loss.
References
[edit]- ^ van Dijk, P.P. (2016). "Cycloderma frenatum". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2016: e.T6009A3088072. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-2.RLTS.T6009A3088072.en. Retrieved 16 November 2021.
- ^ "Appendices | CITES". cites.org. Retrieved 2022-01-14.
- ^ Fritz, Uwe; Havaš, Peter (2007). "Checklist of Chelonians of the World" (PDF). Vertebrate Zoology. 57 (2): 314–315. ISSN 1864-5755. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2011-05-01. Retrieved 29 May 2012.
- ^ "Cycloderma frenatum ". The Reptile Database. www.reptile-database.org.
Further reading
[edit]- Peters W (1854). "Übersicht der auf seiner Reise nach Mossambique beobachteten Schildkröten ". Bericht über die zur Bekanntmachung geeigneten Verhandlung der Königlich Preuissische Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin 1854: 215–216. (Cycloderma frenatum, new species, p. 216). (in German and Latin).